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022677Corry PA: Oregon Indian Medicine Co. Trade Card. 9 x 9 inch cardstock with gold red black and blue inked design advertising Oregon Indian Medicines with two moveable tabs which allow for a perpetual calendar. Card is moderately soiled and lightly creased. Verso has pencil writing likely from previous owner. Fully operational and functional calendar. Printed by the Herald Lithography Company of Erie PA. Card advertises various quack medicines including Worm Eradicator Catarrh Snuff Woman's Friend and the always vital Tape Worm Secret. Ka-ton-Ka was a patent medicine of the Oregon Indian Medicine Company manufactured of course in Pennsylvania. Despite the claims of being a secret formula for healing from an Indian Tribe in Oregon Ka-ton-Ka was composed of sugar aloes baking soda and alcohol. The advertisements claimed it was a cure for all blood diseases stomach and liver difficulties plus cured Dyspepsia; Biliousness; Syphilis; Scrofula; Salt Rheum; Erysipelas; Catarrh; Liver Complaint; Rheumatism; Enlargement of the Liver; and Diseases of the Kidneys! A really nifty artifact of the patent medicine craze in a large moveable trade card. . Oregon Indian Medicine Co. unknown books
1886926Portland 1886. Good. Broadsheet 11 x 8.5 inches. Old fold lines light wear and soiling a few chips. Rare and ephemeral handbill for "Fairdale Bitter Water" marketed as a mineral water with remarkable health benefits for a variety of ailments. "The possibilities of this water are almost beyond belief as any reputable physician will testify." One side of the broadsheet contains an engraving of the product "put up in elegant flint glass bottles containing a full quart." A nice piece of medical quack advertising from the Pacific Northwest. unknown books
1935M4480Offprint from:: The Canadian Medical Assoc. Journal 1935. 1935. 8vo. 31 pp. Illus. Wrappers. Fine. Articles by Thomas B. Futcher Maude E. Abbott and W. W. Francis. The Canadian Medical Assoc. Journal, 1935. unknown books
189063182Chicago IL: np 1890. Broadside 12 x 4 1/2 in. approximately 40 lines of text 200 words illustrated with 2 portraits one of Rolling Thunder and one of his wife and business manager. "Known to his family as Belmont and to the public as Chief Rolling Thunder Louis Belmont Newell was born around 1858 to Thomas Newell and Marie Parsons of Indian Island Old Town Maine. Newell appears to have married several times and his first daughter Blanche was born to Victoria Tahamont around 1886. It is around this time that Newell is first referred to as Chief Rolling Thunder and that his company the Kiowa Medicine Company begins touring. The show was comprised of "moral" entertainment and lectures given on the customs habits manners and religion of tribes. Newell would also sell "traditional Kiowa" medicines and give out health guides. It is uncertain when the company was actually formed and though Newell claimed that he was a descendent of the First Chief Medicine Man of the Kiowa Nation Teet-Toot-Sah this was most likely just for his public image. It is much more likely that his parents were Penobscots from Maine. Newell married Louisa Stump of Iroquois descent in 1891. Louisa was an expert shot and travelled with the Kiowa Medicine Company for some time. In 1894 Newell married his fourth wife Jeanne "Jennie" Congleton who served as business manager for the Kiowa Medicine and Vaudeville Company for many years. Newell died December 1 1933 and was buried in Randolph NY. More information on L.B. Newell has been compiled by descendants of Newell and can be found on Ne-Do-Ba a geneological website for the Wabanaki people." see the Smithsonian Institution SOVA site. <br/><br/> np unknown books
18746017Jersey City N.J.: Published by Clark Johnson M.D. 1874. Octavo 19 x 12.5 cm. 309 1 pages. Illustrated. Advertisement. Second edition second printing. Graff refers to an earlier undated issue of 219 pages. This 309 page edition was originally issued in 1874. Felcone also notes copies of the 1874 printing with and without the two line printers attribution to the title page verso. A false Indian captivity narrative in the service of advertising a patent medicine. "A revolting fictitious story written to advertise Dr. Clark Johnson's Indian blood syrup and made up mainly of descriptions of Indian life and customs some of which are cribbed with considerable garbling from Catlin. - G. P. Garrison." Ayer 90 as quoted in Graff. Closed tear to fore edge of rear fly and two blank leaves. Foxing throughout a bit musty. With the bookplate of the West Townshend Sabbath School Library. endpapers a bit stained. In black and blind-stamped decorated orange cloth; soiled; edges rubbed and worn. Good only. Ayer 90; Felcone 3401; Graff 1199. Published by Clark Johnson, M.D. hardcover books
18837512Buffalo N.Y.: Published by D. Ransom Son & Co.; Press of Baker Jones & Co 1883. Booklet sewn on cords in wrappers 16.5 x 10 cm. 32 pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. A single year from the annual almanac promoting the "Celebrated Family Medicines" of Ransom Son & Co. series 1874 - c. 1923. The booklet consists of a series of alternating pages of recipes culinary household medicinal dyeing etc. with facing pages each advertising an individual patent medicine Trask's Magnetic Ransom's Honey Syrup Ransom's Hive Syrup Universal Magnetic Balm Prof. Anderson's Dermador. Printed orange paper wrappers decorated and with text. Hole with string tie to upper left corner. Very light rippling to wrappers otherwise fine. Published by D. Ransom, Son & Co.; Press of Baker, Jones & Co unknown books
18347587Boston: J. Howe Printer no. 39 Merchant's Row; D. Hooton printer 1834. Booklet single sheet folded in eight 17 x 10 cm. printed recto and verso 7 1 pages twice printed same both sides. FIRST EDITION. A brief manual of recipes a short materia medica offered by Boston's Thomas Hollis Druggist and Apothecary. The title continues "list of articles contained in the chest" followed by a table of contents "Emetics Physical Billious Pills Jalap and Calomel Rhubarb. Camphor Tarlington's Balsam of Life Laudanus Essence of Peppermint Elixir Palegoric White Vitriol etc." The final section covers artificial respiration. On the rear panel Hollis offers actual medicine chests "for ships or families. medicine chests put up very cheap with medicine of the first quality and designed for fishing and coastal vessels." as well as a number of inks lemon syrup and soda. Small chip from rear panel not effecting text. WITH: Broadside 29 x 22 cm. Publication information from OCLC record. A small broadside advertising Dr. Ward's Asthmatic Pills a patent medicine offered as an anti-tussive agent by Hollis. Printed with an interlocking border of ringlets. Trimmed a bit close. Still very good. OCLC locates one copy UMich. Clements Library. J. Howe, Printer, no. 39 Merchant's Row; D. Hooton, printer unknown books
1711216118London: Printed for Eben Tracy at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge 1711. 1 vols. 12mo. Advertisement leaf laid down as backing of terminal leaf p. 191 with some old paper reinforcements obscuring part of the headline and a few letters. Book is bound in half calf worn with numerous contemporary signatures William Bliss Mary Rotten etc. and pen starts on verso of title and frontispiece. 1 vols. 12mo. Bookseller's Nostrum 'from Chili in America'. Advertisement<br/>There is lately brought from Chili in America a most excellent natural Balsam far exceeding that of Peru and Tokay in curing most Diseases in human Bodies. Tis a Remedy no Man under the Sun can compose as being a most Odoriferous and Natrual Balsam. It cures all Pains proceeding from Cold corroborates the Stomach creates an Appetite and strengthens the whole Body : It is a wonderful Remedy for all internal Sores Bruises Ulcers &c. and mightily helps all Asthmatical Distempers: 'Tis also a great Cephalick helping most Diseases of the Head and strengthening the Brain and Nerves : It kills the Worm provokes Urine and is good against the Stone; helps all Fluxes of the Belly is excellent in all Diseases of the Ears especially Deafness : It also cures all manner of green Wounds.<br/>Not It is only to be had of Eben Tracy at the Three Bibles on London-bridge at 1 S 6 d. the Ounce; the Bottles are Seal'd with the Balsam-tree. Printed for Eben Tracy at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge unknown books
177525679London : np 1775. First Edition. Disbound. Very Good. First Edition. 1-4 pp. 8vo. Extracted from a bound volume with offsetting on the last page indicating it was bound opposite the September 1770 issue title page of Gentleman's Magazine. Small marginal hole not affecting text. Disbound. Caption title from page one. English Short Title Catalog N12918. Blake J. NLM 18th cent.; p. 488 both copies at NLM are extracts. While well represented in digital form this title is only found at the National Library of Medicine from what we have been able to determine which guesses that the publication date is 1775. Our copy with the offsetting from a September 1770 title page may help in further scholarship on the date of publication. np unknown books
1860WRCAM41779New York: B.L. Judson & Co. 1860. 24pp. Original yellow printed wrappers. Spine mostly perished. Some chipping and tears to wrappers. Very minor soiling. Good. A rare patent-medicine almanac reprinting the story of an herbalist's rescue of Tula the Aztec princess likely fabricated to promote the sale of Judson's various medicaments. Originally printed in 1859 by the same publisher the almanac recounts the story of the "wealthy herbalist Dr. Cunard who with a trapper named Du Bois or Hawk Eye spent seven years trapping and travelling throughout the Far West. The doctor had a number of unusual experiences not the least of which was his single-handed defiance of the Navajo Tribe as they were about to burn Tula the Aztec princess at the stake. This was accomplished by capitalizing on the fortuitous imminence of a total eclipse of which the good doctor knew after consulting his handy little almanac. The Navajo chief was as confounded as Merlin in an earlier day and promptly gave up not only Tula but also his secret mountain-herb recipe. A trapper's testimonial direct from St. Louis concludes this 'True Account'" - Eberstadt. The almanac seems to have been published for only about four years 1860- 63 although the advertisement/story does appear in a few other almanacs as well. OCLC locates only one copy of the 1861 almanac and only one of most of the others as well at the Rochester Museum and Science Center. Rare and interesting. EBERSTADT 127:215 ref. B.L. Judson & Co. unknown books
189142810.1New Haven: Healy & Bigelow Publishers 1891. Axford p. 141. Not found in Hoolihan Cagle Bitting and Wheaton. Tan stapled wrappers with black printed lettering and decoration. Age-toning to wrappers. Bit of wear. Overall solid VG condition. 48 pp. Recipes on verso of each leaf advertisements on recto. 19 wood engraving of Native American chiefs and medicine men including Sitting Bull Many Horns Arrow Point and Big Elk. 6-11/16" x 4-3/8" <br/><br/>Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co. cookbook and patent medicine promotion. Recipes include "Chicken Cuban Style" "Dad's Pop-Corn Balls" and the very specific "To Make Twelve Cream Cakes" while illnesses treated range from constipation to malaria and more. Healy & Bigelow, Publishers unknown books
1925WRCLIT81017Binghamton NY: Dr. Kilmer & Co. 1925. Pictorial wrappers. Lower extreme forecorner of upper wrapper detached and laid in tiny closed tear at fore-edge of upper wrapper text uniformly tanned otherwise very good. First edition of this almanac promoting Dr. Kilmer's kidney liver and bladder medicine praised for not containing any "habit- producing drugs" such as "calomel mercury creosote morphine opium strychnine cocaine." although it did contain 10% alcohol. Interspersed between the advertisements and testimonials is a useful planting and weather almanac. Dr. Kilmer 12840-1924 started marketing his elixir around 1878 and in 1892 sold his interests to his brother Jonas and the enterprise was the foundation for the multi-million dollar fortune of Willis Sharpe Kilmer. A few years after this issue a substantial Dream Book component was added to the almanac. Dr. Kilmer & Co. unknown books
182637211Harrisburg PA 1826. Folio sheet folded to 4 pp for mailing. Addressed with Harrisburg postmark to Dr. Fairlamb in Downingtown. With tear from seal remnant affecting a single letter. Very Good.<br/><br/> "My Dear Fairlamb In as much as the passage of the new Medical school bill will crowd our profession which is already full by offering greater facilities to the study of medicine and as the Jefferson Medical faculty have already given us an earnest that they will prostitute medical honours by conferring them on men unacquainted with medical science the interest of medical men throughout the State is consequently deeply involved. The degree of Dr. of medicine has been conferred on Jonathan Pound a book-binder by the Jefferson College after having attended one course only. Five of the six professors were in favour of conferring a degree on my neighbour Henry Zook who is almost an idiot. A letter was received last night from Dr. Hiester of Reading in which he states that "two quacks in Lebanon county have actually received from the professors of the Jefferson College a promise of the Degree of Doctor of Medicine for exertions which they have made and are still making to send forward petitions in favour of the new medical school.<br/> "From such dishonourable proceedings I am confident that your well judging mind will revolt. As the more you view this bill in all its bearings the more you will be convinced that it will interfere with our interest." Harris urges Fairlamb to use his influence by urging Representative Hunt to oppose the bill.<br/> Hon. William Harris 1799-1865 a civil engineer was the son of James Harris a Pennsylvania State Senator and cofounder of the town of Bellefonte. He was son-in-law of Dr. George Ashbridge Fairlamb 1784-1829. Dr. Fairlamb received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1808 and practiced medicine in Downingtown for many years. He also established The Independent Journal of Downingtown a Jackson paper with George Plitt in 1827. unknown books
194021590Brooklyn New York: Bob Leavitt 1940. A press photograph of an active operating room scene with surgery taking place 5 doctors and nurses visible instrument tray dramatic focused lighting; black and white approx. 7" x 9" size; with the Bob Leavitt 921 Wash'n Av. Brooklyn N.Y. studio stamp and "Not released B.L." in pen below along with request for credit also in ink; a few pencil numbers; no other identifiers; image with a little edgewear back with some soiling; in very good condition good photographic & medical history ephemera especially with photographer Leavitt's personal initial & markings. . Signed by Photographer. Photograph. Not Bound. Very Good. Bob Leavitt Paperback books
19205160Lynn Mass: Lydia Pinkham Medicine Company 1920. Stapled booklet 18 x 11.75 cm. 32 pages. FIRST EDITION. A promotional cookbook issued by the patent medicine company which issued Lydia Pinkham's Herb Medicine and Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Recipes are interspersed with testimonials and a customer survey in the back allows the marketers to keep track of the booklet's distribution. Pages age-toned and some discoloration to title page. Staples a bit rusty otherwise very good with a handsome wrapper image printed in orange and green. OCLC locates ten copies. Lydia Pinkham Medicine Company unknown books
48376New York: Dr. Herrick's Family Medicine Co. 69 Murray St n. d. 1st printing presumed ca 1900. Per OCLC later printings have testimonials on p. 32. Printed green paper wrappers with cameos of the 3 species to the front cover stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age-toning & wear. Vertical crease from folding. Last few leaves with bent lower corner. A Good copy. 32 pp. Horse anatomy diagram p. 2. 6-1/4" x 4-3/8" <br/><br/>Scarce work on the subject with OCLC listing just one holding institution NYHS. Dr. Herrick's Family Medicine Co., 69 Murray St unknown books
184019330Boston: Printed and Published for Dr. Samuel Thomson and for Sale at his Medicine Store 1840. First edition. A couple of small spots of damp-stain a bit roughly opened in a few spots with a small chip to the upper outer corner of the title page; a very good copy. Unbound stab-stitched pamphlet 8 x 4.5 inches 36 pages. Illus. An effective advertisement for the Thomsonian botanic system of medicine a well-established ongoing enterprise at this point with much in the way of pointed humorous verses in the voice of the humble lobelia anecdotes about the follies of allopathic physicians and a sort of backhanded defense of women as physicians: "Altho' woman may be inferior to us in mathematical political and military talents; we cannot deny that they possess superior capacity for the science of medicine; and although men should reserve to themselves the exclusive right to mend broken limbs and fractured skulls and to prescribe in all cases for their own sex they should give up to women the office of attending upon women." Among the ads for Thomson publications and warnings against imitators presumably James Osgood's Thomsonian Almanac one finds a nice job printing advertisement for S. R. Hart of Boston at the foot of the last page. With 12 fine humorous woodcut illustrations. Drake 4230. Printed and Published for Dr. Samuel Thomson, and for Sale at his Medicine Store, unknown books
185519521New York: Pruden & Roberts Printers 51 Beekman street 1855. First edition. Some light soiling; in very good condition. Single leaf printed recto and verso 13.75 x 7.88 inches. Benton b. 1808 here advertises his recent relocation of his medical offices from Brooklyn to Manhattan as well as a series of lectures and demonstrations on the powers of electricity--"And in keeping with the philosophy illustrated by Experiments those who have witnessed them with one accord agree that No Theatre or Band of Minstrels can equal the sport or amusement and all in keeping with good order not objectionable to the most fastidious. The Hearing Sight Taste Smell or any of the senses disturbed the Mental or Muscular Power controlled and all are Relieved at the pleasure of the operator." Benton also notes for visitors consulting at his offices "Examinations by Clairvoyants for disease which have astonished those who have witnessed them can be had if desired." The numerous press notices included here go as late as Oct. 30 1854 and the dates of performance indicate an 1855 performance. Benton noted in the 1855 New York census as a New York City resident eventually moved upstate appearing in directories in Lansingburgh N. Y. as an electric physician as late as 1882. Not noted in Atwater. Not found on OCLC. Pruden & Roberts, Printers, 51 Beekman street, unknown books
183419309Madisonville Tennessee: Printed at the Office of Henderson & Johnston Edwards & Henderson--Printers 1834. Fourth edition. Sheep rubbed with a small chip at the head of the spine; foxed as usually found; rear free endpaper excised; a very good copy. Large 8vo contemporary likely original sheep brown leather label gilt rules and lettering xv 1 604 pages. The great populist domestic medical guide of Jacksonian America with much on herbal remedies as well as advice on child birth wound care etc. from the Savannah Georgia native and Madisonville Tennessee physician John C. Gunn 1795-1863. See the Atwater catalog summary of Rosenberg's introduction to the facsimile of the 1830 first edition for more on Gunn's work and its contrast to Buchan. This edition includes the added section on epidemic cholera. A so-called second edition was also published in Madisonville in 1834; the first edition was published in Knoxville in 1830 followed by a Knoxville second edition in 1833 and a so-called Madisonville fourth edition in 1833 preceding the Madisonville second edition of 1834. American Imprints Inventory Tennessee 291; Atwater 1461 this edition. Printed at the Office of Henderson & Johnston, Edwards & Henderson--Printers, unknown books
183219132Columbus O.: Published by Pike Platt and Co. M. L. Lewis.Printer 1832. An early edition of this popular work. Some light wear and some foxing; small ink stain to a few leaves; a very good copy. 12mo contemporary likely original tree calf red morocco label gilt lettering 206 2 pages edges sprinkled. First published in 1829 in Columbus O. based on a series of lectures delivered in Cincinnati and the earliest known work in support of the populist Thomsonian botanical medicine system. Evidently expanded over the earlier 162-page editions. Atwater 2991 this edition; Morgan Ohio Imprints 178; Cordasco 30-0766. Published by Pike, Platt and Co., M. L. Lewis......Printer, unknown books
1741224902Halle: Waysenhaus 1741. Collation; 1 a-c8A-pppp8. 7 ff. 1-1232 pp. 56 ff. index. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary vellum soiled foot of spine worn some browning of text. A few faint contemporary ink markings in prelims. A fresh sound copy. Collation; 1 a-c8A-pppp8. 7 ff. 1-1232 pp. 56 ff. index. 1 vols. 8vo. Mid-eighteenth-century edition of this popular German medical work by Christian Friedrich Richter 1676-1711 medical doctor and theologian and medical director of the Halle orphanages.<br/><br/>From the library of Dr. Ernst L. Wynder co-author of the first large-scale study of smoking and lung cancer JAMA 143:329 and FOUNDING EDITOR of the journal Preventive Medicine. cf. Blake 381 12th ed. Leipzig same year; Hirsch/H. IV 799 Waysenhaus] unknown books
1767214865Hamburg: Im Verlage der typographischen Gesellschaft 1767. ii 118 724 4; 166 2 ads pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Contemporary speckled calf. Joints rubbed with some old repairs; closed tear in margin of pp. 80/81. Fresh and attractive copy. ii 118 724 4; 166 2 ads pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Early German edition of Tissot's influential 'Avis au peuple sur la santé' first published in Lausanne in 1761 here translated with two related texts on the imperfection of other German medical works and a Swedish work on longevity<br/><br/>From the library of Dr. Ernst L. Wynder co-author of the first large-scale study of smoking and lung cancer JAMA 143:329 and FOUNDING EDITOR of the journal Preventive Medicine. Im Verlage der typographischen Gesellschaft unknown books
18903715New Haven: Healy & Bigelow Publishers 1890. Booklet stapled in wrappers 17 x11.5 cm. 64 pages. Illustrated throughout. A promotional cookbook for the patent medicines of Healy & Bigelow's Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company featuring over one hundred seventy simple recipes for beverages biscuits candy cakes fish meat pastry poultry puddings soup stews and vegetables interspersed with information about Kickapoo Indian oil salve and other products. Also included are narratives on Indian culture wildly racist but of the era. John H. Healy and Charles Bigelow began their company in the late 1870s promoting their "traditional" Indian medicines with traveling medicine shows that capitalized on the public's nostalgia for the the Wild West. In orange wrappers with hole punch and ribbon to top left corner some slight discoloration to wrapper otherwise very good. OCLC locates seven copies. Healy & Bigelow Publishers unknown books
1880WRCAM56371New Haven: Hoggson & Robinson Steam Job Printers 1880. Broadside 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches. Minor creasing and edge wear light soiling. Near fine. A rare broadside touting the healing powers of Dr. S.A. Tanner who promises to "give the locations and symptoms" to any disease "WITHOUT ASKING ANY QUESTIONS." Tanner asserts that he uses natural "Indian Vegetables composed of Roots Herbs Barks and Buds" and specifically states that they would heal "lameness hip and spinal diseases." He offers free consultations and house calls as well. Dr. Tanner claimed an office at Apothecaries Hall in New Haven a long-running pharmacy and office building for area physicians. Dr. Tanner's services have the ring of medical quackery one of the defining characteristics of which was the absolute talent to cure any disease with Native American medicines. New Haven was a locus for purveyors of such miraculous "Indian" remedies. Hoggson & Robinson, Steam Job Printers unknown books
4545GUY CARLETON 1ST BARON DORCHESTER 1724-1808. Carleton was the British colonial governor of Quebec before and at the beginning of the American Revolution. He retired in 1778 but he was brought back to North America in 1782 to oversee the evacuation of New York by British troops and loyalists. AL. 2pgs. 7 ¾†x 7 ¾â€. April 21 1783. Boston. A handwritten unsigned letter addressed to Sir Guy Carleton as Commander in Chief of All the Forces of His Britannic Majesty in North America. The anonymous author seeks reimbursement for a doctor named Thomas Bulfinch who had his entire stock of medicines taken by the British for their use in Boston. Carleton was the in New York City: “Sir I had the honour to receive Excellency’s very polite letter in consequence of my recommendation of Mr. Livingston to your notice; I fear your Excellency will think me trouble some in my frequent addresses to you but I must beg your indulgence in suffering me to solicit your countenance to the application of Thomas Bulfinch Esqr. a physician of respectable character; the doctor was call’d upon by General Howe when the British Troops were in Boston for the whole of his medicines & drugs which were taken & used in their service the several papers with the variety of circumstances attending this business the doctor has dedicated to Mr. Peter Morton Esqr. a gentleman of reputation in the profession of the law who is accompanied by Mr. Charles Bulfinch son of the Doc’r a young gentleman of an amiable character whom I beg leave to introduce to your Excellency’s notice & civilities & whom I pray the fav. with Mr. Morton’s Lady may be permitted to pass into New York & I shall feel myself exceedingly oblig’d to your Excellency for your countenance & support to Mr. Morton & Mr. Bulfinch in the prosecution of this Business with possible that the Doc’r may meet a Reimbursement and I shall be happy to have an oppo’y to demonstrate my readiness on all occasions to convince you of my disposition to make similar returns & with what truth I am Sir Your Excellency’s Most Obed’t humble Serv’t.†Charles Bulfinch 1763-1844 the doctor’s son mentioned in this letter would go on to become an important architect and he was the second Architect of the United States Capital. His son Thomas Bulfinch 1796-1867 is well-known as the author of Bulfinch’s Mythology. The letter is in fair condition with cross-outs repaired folds and dark ink. unknown books
